11/30/12

Kenzie ate about half of her malt-o-meal and raisins at breakfast. At lunch she ate all of her mixed fruit, tomato soup, macaroni noodles and about half of her spaghetti sauce with hamburger in it.

Kenzie started all of the children walking, running and walking backwards around the big bear this morning. She was even singing the song we sing about it -- "I am waking, walking, walking..." Emily, Riley and Thomas were all joining her.

Kenzie announced, "hey, it's decorate day!" I asked her if she wa going to go home and decorate for Christmas, and she put her little hands on her hips and said, "no, we already did that!" I guess 'decorate day' didn't mean what I assumed it meant!

I used a couple of the stuffed animals to illustrate some of the things Kenzie struggles with for her and how to handle it appropriately. All of the children ended up stopping what they are doing to watch and listen also, very intrigued. It is amazing how interesting a "lecture" can be with you add a couple props! : )

Kenzie and Morgan did some dramatic play cooking after our puppy lesson time. I don't know if it was just coincidence, but they played together quite well with no conflict!

In the back room, Kenzie was very proud of herself when she got a lot off of the Duplos on one of the Duplo plates all by herself. She asked me if I could take a picture of it to show her mommy.

11/29/12

Kenzie ate all of her cinnamon English muffin and a couple bites of bites of blueberries at breakfast.

Kenzie was orchestrating a crazy chase game first thing this morning, but it was on the 'rowdy side' so that was good. When it got carried away and they started screaming we interrupted the play to tone it down a few notches.

Kenzie raced around saying, 'Olie, Olie, Olie, where are you? Come back here!' I think Morgan started it, but I'm not sure. They both knew that he was from the baseball game.

She was also calling herself "Mo" with a cute little smirk on her face today. I think it is great how many of the sports thins she knows--logos, mascots, different types of balls..

She asked if she could take her jumper off because "I'm just too hot!" S she ran around the rest of the day with just shirt and tights on. I just bout did the same thing with Riley because her skirt kept flipping up instead of laying down, but I decided to just take it off for nap so it wouldn't ball up and be uncomfortable while she slept.

When we went to the back room Morgan build a great Duplo creation. Kenzie immediately started asking her to help her make one. At first Morgan said she couldn't because she was "busy", but the next time Kenzie asked, she told her, "sure, I can" and helped her start putting them together.

Kenzie's pony tail fell out before nap time this morning, so I decided to fix it. I asked her how many ponies she wanted and she sad three so we tried it. Actually, it came out pretty good.

11/28/12

Kenzie ate seconds on biscuits and all of her peaches at breakfast. At lunch she ate all of her dinner roll and corn and about half of both her baked beans and pineapple.

Kenzie and Emily played together (at my arrangement) on one side of the room and Morgan and Joslyn on the other for most of our big room play time. They did pretty well. Emily just kind of goes with the flow so she plays well with either Morgan or Kenzie. Primarily she just does what they tell her, but if she has had enough she will just move away and play by herself. She doesn't engage in conflict like some of the others.

Kenzie and Emily were playing a form of hide and seek using a stuffed kitty as the item to seek. They funniest thing about it is that they just can't refrain from telling each other where they hid it. As soon as the child starts to look, they are giving the hiding place away. Goofy kiddos!

Kenzie and Morgan enjoyed playing with the little people airplanes, cars and parking garage in the one back room and in and around the building I helped them make with the big interlocking blocks in the other. They were cracking me up! They would stand on the edge of it and announce loudly, "Boys and gentlemen!" then jump into the middle of it. Gary will occasionally announce "ladies and gentlemen and kids of all ages, welcome to the Sanks circus!" for whatever reason. I guess that was their interpretation of it! : )

11/27/12

Kenzie ate about half of her hash browns and all of her waffles at breakfast. At lunch she ate most of her colored peppers and all of her shrimp, rice and oranges.

It is so cool how often Kenzie and Riley play together or at least interacting with each other. Many times it is Kenzie trying to get Riley to come play with her. We hear, "hey Riley!" often throughout the day. It cracks me up. Riley almost always goes over to her and joins her with a big grin on her face. : )

I have been observing Kenzie closely during play times where she struggles the most. i have come to the conclusion that she has a hard time not grabbing the other kiddos. It often starts off in play, but usually the kiddos don't appreciate it so they either grab back or tell her to let go, which then leads to a more aggressive response. I feel like I am constantly reminding her "No hands" and to "be a good friend", but it doesn't seem to have much impact. If you have any suggestions, feel free to share them with me. Today, for example, I has just given her the reminders when she went over to Thomas and grabbed him. He yelled no at her so she started kicking him. Riley then came over and joined in trying to kick him also.

Kenzie loves all of the little stuffed puppies and kitties out right now. She gathers as many as she can hold, and usually a couple more. It is really cute! As much as she loves them (and hates it when someone else gets one of her favorites), she will always share one with Riley. Riley always gets special treatment from Kenzie. : )

Kenzie and Joslyn were very involved in playing with the dolls. They were feeding them, putting them to bed, reading them stories, and otherwise playing with them for about 20-25 minutes.

I sat baby Noah in the chair when we went to the back room and Kenzie went over and talked to him several different times. It was very sweet. She really does like the babies!

11/26/12

Kenzie ate all of her Cheerios and most of her banana at breakfast. A lunch she ate all of her grilled cheese sandwich and apple slices and about half of her salad with ranch.

Kenzie and Emily were taking turns pretending to be kitties this morning. Whoever was the kitty would chase the non-kitty and they were just laughing and having so much fun. After one had been a kitty for a while, they would switch roles and the laughter continued!

Kenzie told me she was tired at least five times this morning. Everyone was actually tired acting and a Kind of cranky off and on, so i am attributing it to the long weekend with more stuff and people rammed into it. She was very in people's space without listening their words or sounds. She also was quick to attack, but no biting, so that was good. I had her take a break after a more aggressive attack and she did much better job of regulating after that.

She was thrilled that we had the Christmas decoration stuffed animals up on the ledges, compliments of grandma Annabelle... (Thank you again!) She also liked the Christmas tree, especially when we had the lights on. I have to find the Frosty snowman for outside still.

When we were playing in back room Kenzie started to put big blocks together and was calling it her "salamander". It was one BIG and funny looking salamander from my viewpoint. : ) I also helped them make little "houses" with a opening so that they could slide the little Duplo people into the house through the "door". Kenzie and Morgan loved that!

11/21/12

Kenzie ate all of her toast and thirds on dried mangos at breakfast.  At lunch she ate all of her beef and bean burrito and her tropical fruit and a bite of her sweet potatoes.  

Kenzie was thrilled that Colt was here today.  They started off all jumping onto the mattress from the balance beam, which lead to wresting with the bear, with lead to wrestling with each other, which lead to chaos and moving the to the other side of the room.  

They started doing some doctor play, at Colt's leading and where giving all of the doll check-ups.  It was great that he got them all engaged in it.  Literally wherever Colt was the fur big girls were glued to him, unless I specifically made them not play together, which made whoever it was VERY unhappy.  

We got out the magna  doodles and they were very engaged with them!  They were all very focused on what they were doing.  I think it helped because Colt was extremely excited about it.  

Morgan attacked Kenzie twice today, one leaving actual scratch marks on her face below her eye.  Neither of them were provoked, although another one was.  Both were over them competing for Colt's attention during play.  

Kenzie asked me to sing "frosty the snowman", so I was singing it.  About halfway through she asked if I could sing "Rudolf next"!  : )

Happy Thanksgiving!  I hope you have a wonderful long weekend.  We are looking forward to ours.  

11/20/12

Kenzie ate all of her prunes and seconds on cinnamon roll at breakfast.  At lunch Kenzie ate all of her waffles and cantaloupe and a tasting bite of hash browns and scrapped eggs.  

Kenzie and Morgan were struggling first thing this morning, so I decided to just keep them apart until our small group time.  Kenzie ended up playing with Joslyn most of the time and they were very cute wrestling with the big bear together, along with Riley or Nora for part of it.  

Kenzie is very sweet with the mobile babies, often letting them explore her face, even letting them poke her eyes, nose and ears.  She did draw the line when Mia pulled her hair.  Of course I would too, since she pulls really hard!  

When they switched to the other side of the big room, Kenzie and Joslyn looked at books for about 15 minutes then started putting all of the other kiddos on that side to bed.  They were having them lay down and then covering them up, saying "nigh-night".   If they were lucky the got a couple pats on the back or head!  

Nora was on a blanket she was using and Kenzie kept trying to move her off.  It wasn't being very successful so finally she got frustrated, put her little hands on her hips and indignantly said, "you've GOT legs!"

Joslyn had told Kenzie that she didn't want to do what Kenzie told her to do.  Kenzie then came over to me and said, "Joslyn hurt my feelings!"  

Kenzie put one of the dolls on her shoulders and told me she was giving the baby a ride "like daddy does".  

Right before we were ready to switch rooms Morgan and Kenzie asked to play with the giant bear together, so I let them.  Kenzie was in the front and Morgan behind her, while sitting on him.  Kenzie had ahold of his ears and reared back like he was bucking.  When she did, the back of her head smacked Morgan right in the nose.  It hurt bad and Kenzie felt bad.  She told her "I'm sorry!" Instantly, but also gave her a hug when she  was holding a cold cloth on it, which I thought was great!  

11/19/12

Kenzie ate all of her mixed fruit and Kix cereal at breakfast.  At lunch she ate seconds on EVERYTHING!  We had ham sandwich, mandarin oranges and steamed broccoli!  Way to go, Kenzie!  

Kenzie talked about her hair being wet multiple times this morning, even after it was mostly dry.  Gary asked her if she had take a shower this morning and she chuckled and said, "No, a bath!"  Silly Gary!

Christina, Matt and their friend, Mike make it in last night.  Christina is Gary's daughter.  They are in the process of moving up here from Louisiana.  Their apartment won't be available until mid December, so they are staying with us until then.  Kenzie acted like they hadn't been gone since they came up to visit in October.  

For some  reason, Kenzie frequently bites Morgan's nose (only leaving light marks once).  I would have to say that my assumption is that Morgan is in her space, since I don't  know how else she would get her nose in her mouth.  

After today's nose incident I split the girls up and Kenzie ended up playing with Emily and Riley most of the rest of the morning until we split into small groups. 

Kenzie cracked me up today when she started talking about Christmas and valentines day today!  We haven't even made it to Thanksgiving yet!  She started out by. chanting "putting up Christmas lights, putting up Christmas lights..." over and over as she played with the blocks.  About five minutes later she announced, "Hey Lauralea, I got valentine cards!"  It sounds like she is all set for a while!  

  

11/16/12

Kenzie ate most of her rice and raisins at breakfast.  At lunch she ate all of her French bread, dried apricots and meatloaf and most of her cooked carrots.  

I told Kenzie I was going to redo her hair and asked her what she wanted in her hair.  She said "French"!  I thought that was hilarious.  She didn't even say "braids".  She sat very well, especially for the second one.  I think she realized it pulled less if she sat still.  : )

Kenzie started to climb over me when I was sitting as the gate between the two sides of the big room.  She accidentally kicked me on the way over and said, "Sorry, chief!"  Gary says that a LOT!  I think he got it from David Letterman a long time ago.  

I think it is funny what kiddos remember.  For example, when Alayna was here she started using the fire hats as the dollies' "car seat" and "bed".  This week I heard Kenzie say "that's just like Alayna" when she put her doll in the hat. 

Our giant bear got a two inch tear it the top of his chest (probably from the kiddos tugging and pulling on him so much).  We put him outside the gate for the last couple days so it didn't get worse, or the stuffing get pulled out of him.  Today I made a big production of having him come to the "doctor" to be fixed.  I first lay him on the picnic table (examination table) and let the kiddos examine him.  They used about every doctor's tool we have out, but especially the stethoscopes.  After that we gave him some medicine so it wouldn't hurt so bad when I put stitches in him.  I then took him over to the couch and they anxiously watched as I stitched him up.  They were giving him kisses and petting him the whole time I was working him "to make him feel better!"  It was very cute. 

I remembered to check with everyone's  (the bigger kiddos) mom or dad this morning so I could put on Griz tattoos and all of the kiddos loved it.  All of them watched while their friends got theirs on too, not just for their own.  It was quite the production.  Thank you so much for the donations of the tattoos!  You are so generous in so many ways!  

In the back room Kenzie and Morgan were stacking up big blocks and making a "camp sight".  Morgan started the idea, but Kenzie really went with it!  Morgan put a yellow one on top of several brown ones and said it was the "camp fire".  Kenzie was excited about that.  

11/15/12

Kenzie ate all of her fruit and cinnamon toast at breakfast.   A lunch Kenzie ate all of her chicken, roll and canned cherries.  She also ate about half of her mashed potatoes.  

Kenzie has been so cute and funny with the whole "Rivalry Week" thing.  She has just popped out with "Go Griz!" or "beat the cats" several times and it is so funny.  

Kenzie was slapping at both Morgan and Joslyn on the mattress side of the room (Emily) was on that side also , but doesn't play close to her very often) so I had her go play on the other side of the big room.  She looked forlornly around at all of the 'babies' and Thomas and Peyton and said, "Does anybody want to play with me?"  She ended up trying to read a book to Nora, which as very cute.

Kenzie likes to lay down and then pretend she can't get up and needs help.  That is when some of her friends (usually Morgan and Emily) each grab an arm and try to pull her up.  That usually ends up with them falling down with her and all of them cracking up.  

Morgan was building very tall towers with the duplos in the back room.  Kenzie watched for a couple minutes then started to make her own.  Morgan kept trying to make hers "the same height" as Kenzie's, but every time she got close, Kenzie would add more and tell her it was NOT the same size!  

11/14/12

Kenzie ate all of her peaches and about half of her mini bagel at breakfast.  At lunch Kenzie at all of her macaroni and cheese and her ham, most of her salad with ranch and abut half of her corn. 

Morgan was pretending that the mattress was a swimming pool and Kenzie was very excited to join her.  They were diving and "splashing" and really enjoying it. 

Just so you know, Kenzie has been being pretty aggressive the last day and a half.  Yesterday afternoon she bit two different kiddos and today there have been two already also.  Granted, she is having more control when she is biting and isn't biting as hard, either leaving no marks or just light marks all but one time.  It isn't just biting, but also grabbing, pushing, hitting and landing on the kiddos.  Today I finally had her go play in the back room by herself once and later when the back rooms had sleeping babies in them,  just sit outside the gate for a while.  The phrasing I have been using is that "I can't let you hurt the kiddos so I will have to move you out of the room if you aren't gentle with them." I really think she understands because when she is ready to try again, she either says that she "will be a good friend" or "be gentle with my friends".  If you have other suggestions, please let me know.  

Morgan and Kenzie were pretending it was bed time on the mattress.  They took turns telling each other, "Sorry Honey, but you have to go to sleep!"  I think Kenzie started it, but not sure.  She was the first one I heard say it anyway.  Probably hears the same thing herself.  : )

When we went to the back room, I sat with them and we played with the race cars.  They are pretty good sized and roll really well on the hardwood floors.  After doing it with just one to get the hang of it. I added another one and it got a little crazy.  They were just cracking up, especially when the cars "accidentally" crashed into each other.   

11/13/12

Kenzie ate all of her pears and about half of her waffle at breakfast.  At lunch Kenzie ate all of her tuna on saltines and her orange slices and about half of her sweet potatoes.  

Morgan and Kenzie vacillated from getting along to having enough of each other and one of them moving away.  When one of them moved away the other one rejoined them within couple minutes almost every time and they would be back to being buddies again.  It is interesting to observe!  

Morgan and Kenzie were visiting this morning and Morgan told her, "she's upside-down like a wombat" about how Kenzie was holding her doll.  She must have learned that at home, because I don't think we have ever even said the word "wombat" here.  

Kenzie, Emily and Morgan had a playful tug of war with the giant bear for several minutes.  They pulled him from side to side on the rowdy part of the room, off of and back on the mattress.  

Gary is very proud of Kenzie for finishing his sentence when he says "Go Griz! Beat those stinking'..."  And she will enthusiastically shout, "CATS!"  It's pretty cute.  

Kenzie is sure nice and responsive to her little sister!  Every time that Riley comes over to her, she is always so ready to interact with her or give her loves!  Most of the time she also respects it when Riley makes sounds to let her know she is done or doesn't want her to do something.  

Kenzie asked to do puzzles and asked Emily if she wanted to join her not very long before we were ready to switch to the back rooms.  We actually stayed out in the big room a little longer than usual so they could work on puzzles for a while.  

11/12/12

Kenzie didn't eat any of her breakfast -- Chex and fruit salad.  At lunch she ate about half of her roast beef sandwich and all of her tomato soup and her apple slices,  

Kenzie was very excited about the new toy exchange.  She immediately started exploring what was out.  She tried on several of the dress ups, checked out each of the dolls that was out,  and played with the doctor stuff.

Kenzie was walking around with a stethoscope in her ears asking several of her friends, including Riley, "Can I listen to your heart?"  Most of them responded positively to her doctoring, although Riley got tired of it pretty quickly.  

Morgan was looking at he dog end cat stuffed animals that are out with this set and was finding the matching "twins".  When Kenzie heard Morgan say that, she chuckled, pointed to Riley and said "No, we're the twins!"  : ) 

Joslyn was her primary play mate today.  She started off playing with Morgan, but didn't enjoy Morgan's mood, so moved on.  At first, they played with the stuffed cats and dogs in the igloo then they moved over to the other side of the room and played with the dolls and doctor stu ff.  Kenzie was the doctor and was feeding medicine to both Joslyn and the dolls.  

She and Morgan did play with one on and around the black chair.  one was on and the other one under it.  I am not sure what the game was, but Kenzie would either bark (woof-woof) or say meow and Morgan would peek over the edge of the chair and Kenzie would crack up.  Her laugh is SO contagious and adorable!  

11/9/12

Kenzie ate about half of her oatmeal and prunes at breakfast.  At lunch she ate several bites of her hash brown casserole and all of her biscuit and her mandarin oranges.

Morgan and Kenzie were struggling quite a bit with getting along, so I had to separate them -- Kenzie went to the back room to play with Emily for quite a while (until breakfast).  

After breakfast, they continued to play together in the big room. Kenzie convinced her to sit at the base of the mattress and "cheer for the game".  They were both cheering "Go Griz, Go!"  They were buying "tickets" from me and wanting money back.  I'm assuming that meant change.  

The kiddos were watching a crow in the big tree out of the big window and making cawing sounds.  They also banged n the window to try to scare him away, but he just waited to fly until he was good and ready -- must be taking lessons from our kiddos!  : ) 

The kiddos wanted to do Magna Doodles this morning, Kenzie was actually the first one it point to them and ask.  I got them out but she only ended up playing with them for a fe minutes, she was the second one done (after Thomas). She then wanted to do the magnet ing mosaic boards, but I vetoed it for another day.   I have noticed that some days she kind of just gets into an "I want to play with whatever isn't available right now" mode!  

11/8/12

Kenzie ate all of her French toast and about half of her cantaloupe at breakfast.  At lunch she ate a bite of her squash and all of her dried mangoes turkey slices and crescent roll.  

We had a pretty busy morning today.  A early childhood education student was here doing an observation and checklist on our program for about 90 minutes.  She was very good about being unobtrusive, but it still changes the dynamics somewhat.  About 10 minutes after she got here, Bode's mom, Leslie, brought him and the baby (Reid) down for about the same length of time.  All of the kiddos were very excited to see baby Reid.  The four bigger kiddos followed Bode around like the Pied Piper!  It was so funny!  

Then Coral only had half a day of school, so she came and ate lunch with us and will be with us the rest of the afternoon.  She just hangs out in her room during nap time so that is no issue, it just made an addition for lunch.  

The kiddos asked to "do more leaves" today so we used the last of the sticker fall items Emily's momma Cynthia donated .  They all had fun and I really enjoyed seeing who stacked them, who didn't, who chose mostly leaves and who didn't...  

11/7/12

Kenzie ate all of her whole wheat toast and a tiny berry at breakfast.  By about 10:40 she was asking when "breakfast" was.  At lunch she ate all of her bean soup and kiwi, most of her saltine cracker and about half of her ham.  

Kenzie helped bring Nora food toys when she managed to get herself up to the table and sitting there.  When Nora scooted them off of the table and wanted them back, Kenzie was also great about getting them back for her.  

Morgan, Joslyn and Kenzie were all in the igloo together.  They actually managed to play without conflict in the close quarters!  It may not be a record, but it's well above average!

Morgan and Kenzie were playing and Morgan came over to me and announced, "look at me!  I'm all dressed up like a prince". Kenzie then added that she was Cinderella.  All they were doing differently was putting their hoods from their shirt/dress up over their heads.  

Kenzie had a blast loading one of the backpacks totally full of play food then trying to figure out how to get it onto her back.  First it was upside down, then she managed to get her head in the arm hole, then she had both arms in one hole and even dumped everything out of it when trying to flip it over like her coat.  ..    Even after she had it stuffed full and on her back she kept asking the other kiddos to help her put more stuff into it.  

Kenzie joined Riley while she was laying on the big bear and Riley thought it was funny and started chucking.  Kenzie liked that.  Several other times when Kenzie noticed Riley laying somewhere she would go lay by her and each time Riley responded by chuckling.   

Kenzie decided to start taking pictures of all of her friends with the telephones.  She told Morgan not to say "fuzzy pickles" like she was actually saying.  She said, "say cheesy pickles"!  I have never heard that one!  : )

11/6/12

Kenzie ate a couple bites of her whole wheat bagel and several dried apricot bits at breakfast.  At lunch she ate all of her applesauce, most of her pea pasta with cheese dish and a bite of her tilapia.  

Kenzie and Morgan were "having a party" with the back packs, a bunch of the food toys and several other toys, including books.  They started out on the floor, but Mia wouldn't leave them alone so they moved their party to the box and protection from those pesky babies. : )

Kenzie and Joslyn went out to do puzzles as soon as breakfast was over.   They actually worked on them for quite a while.  Joslyn finally got tired of it and left, but Kenzie stayed.  Morgan joined her and they continued to do puzzles for several more minutes.   It is fun to listen to them dialogue about where the pieces go, what they needed to do to make them fit and just chatting in general.

When we went back to the back room, Kenzie immediately started bringing me big blocks for me to build a "really big tractor" for her.  She and Morgan rode on it for a while and worked with the "wheat"' then decided they needed to add more to the play.  She announced "We filling our seats up!" while taking toys out of the Duplo table and put them on the "tractor" by their  feet.  

Kenzie was asleep literally almost as soon as her head hit the pillow at nap time.  For being that tired, she had a very good morning - several reminders and redirections, but no melt-downs or major aggression issues.  

11/5/12

Kenzie ate several bites of craisins and bran flakes at breakfast.  A lunch Kenzie ate all of her cheese pizza and tropical fruit and a bite of steamed cauliflower.  

Morgan and Kenzie were "decorating" with the animals this morning.  They were "decorating" the igloo and the inside climber/balance beam.  

Kenzie kept talking about how tired she was after breakfast.  Morgan picked up on it and they started pretending to go to sleep.  They were making beds on the big bear, in the igloo, under the chair, on the couch and in the box.  

She and Morgan were trying to "make a tent for their babies".  Of course, to them that means putting everything in the box that they can get away with.  

Kenzie and Morgan were really vacillating between being buddies and excited to play with each other to yelling "move back!" and wanting nothing to do with each other.  It made for quite the emotional roller coaster ride.  

Kenzie and I had a visit about the Elmo show and you could tell she really enjoyed it.  I asked her if different Sesame Street characters were there and she either told me yes or no and usually had a little story to tell me about them. 

11/2/12

Kenzie ate a couple bites of her malt-o-meal  and raisins at breakfast.  At lunch she ate all of her salad with ranch and her mixed fruit and most of her spaghetti.  

Yesterday afternoon Morgan and Kenzie has so much fun playing hide and seek, with Coral's help.  Coral helped them find several really good places to hide, burying them with the stuffed animals or the dress up suits.  They are actually starting to realize that they need to not look while the other one is hiding.  Also they (especially Kenzie) are also starting to be very quiet and still when hiding rather than either popping out of the hiding place immediately when the other starts searching or saying "here I am!"

Morgan and Kenzie were pretending the box was their bedrooms again today.  They asked me to make them pillows and cover them up.  They thought it was funny when I used the dress up clothes to make pillows with.  

She and Morgan  were playing with the stuffed animals today and chose one small panda to be their baby.  They did this whole elaborate dramatic play with it.  First of all they each held one of pandas hand and helped him "walk" to the car to go to the doctor.  It just continued from there until they were in a storm with him getting all wet in the rain.  

At lunch the kiddos were talking about why Thomas didn't have the same kind of dressing as they did.  Kenzie answered that it was "because it's Ranch" and Morgan said it was because "it has milk in it".  Both were right on.  We have had more discussions about the foods we are eating since we have had Thomas that I can EVER remember before!  : ). It's actually been a great learning opportunity.  

11/1/12

Kenzie decided she didn't want to eat breakfast after all this morning.   A lunch she ate all of her canned chicken on saltines, cherries and most of her corn.

Kenzie snuggled only briefly then got down to play with Morgan.  They played for about five minutes before the was conflict and Morgan moved to the other side.  Within a couple minutes, Morgan asked to go play with "my friend, Kenzie" again.  She went over to her with hands on hips and said, "are you gonna be nice to me now?"  Kenzie put her hands on her hips also and told her "ya, will you be nice to me too?"  They just crack me up!  Talk about very similar temperaments in so many ways!  

I don't know how many times a day one of the kiddos -- usually either Morgan or Kenzie ask me, "Will you sing shirts?"  That means "Kenzie has a pink shirt, pink shirt, pink shirt.  Kenzie has a pink shirt on today".  What cracks me up is when they ask me to do their moms or dads (as if I should know what kind of shirts you guys are wearing!)

One of Morgan and Kenzie's favorite place to hang out and play is in the corner behind the igloo.  They often take a bunch of the stuffed animals back there with them to cuddle and play with.  

Kenzie coughed pretty loudly and Morgan looked at her and said, "Wow!  Are you sick?"  Kenzie laughed and told her no.  

Gary and I have decided that we have a group of five mini teenagers.  They were all sitting around with phones, speaking cell phone language (watching movies on the phone, turn it on speaker, gotta take this call, I gettin' a text...).  It just cracks me up!